Comments on: From a 15-year-old’s blog to MSM: Bleachgate and Miracle Mineral Solutions

By: Bleachgate: Teen Takes on Dangerous "Miracle Solution"

Bleachgate: Teen Takes on Dangerous "Miracle Solution" — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 18:29:05 +0000

[...] Online Journalism Blog, which hosts a video of Rhys describing his role in Bleachgate, encourages bloggers to link Miracle Mineral Solution to the Guardian article, in order to highlight the quackery going on. [...]

By: alice

alice — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 21:18:56 +0000

Sorry Martin, didn’t mean my comment to imply you weren’t a journalist. I’m sorry you read blogger v journ into that comment – really wasn’t the intention (also didn’t realise that was a “column” piece hard to spot distinction online). I thought it was worth celebrating the blogging network, but turns out that it can’t take credit.

Still, we could more plainly say that Martin writes for the Guardian via his work as a skeptic blogger and the Guardian’s willingness/ keenness to bring in such voices. So, to make my point differently, it’s great that Martin’s used his column in this way, and I hope the story gets as much coverage as possibly, but I also hope that it is covered from other angles, because though arguably the most important part of the story is the anti-quack element, I personally think it can say more than that, to further audiences.

p.s. look more coverage at PloS blogs – I think off the back of Jo’s post. As well as coverage in the Kenyan media

By: Martin Robbins

Martin Robbins — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 20:53:26 +0000

Regarding my status at the Guardian, this wasn’t a blog post, it was a column – I’ve been a columnist and freelance journalist for The Guardian a lot longer than I’ve been a column. But in general I find the whole blogger vs. journalist vs. MSM categorization obsession really annoying – it’s possible now for a blog to be mainstream media, and it’s possible for a blogger to be a journalist.

By: Jo Brodie

Jo Brodie — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 19:11:28 +0000

Thanks to Alice for reminding me of your clever idea Paul – I have blogged about it too. There’s no new information in the post but plenty of links

(bwahahahaha)

By: Paul Bradshaw

Paul Bradshaw — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 16:53:41 +0000

Yes – it is the less mainstream part of MSM & it was difficult to find a phrase to describe Martin – reporter-blogger?

By: alice

alice — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 16:45:20 +0000

Though it is now on the Guardian site, which as you say is important, it’s not really MSM coverage in some respects. Sort of, depends on definition. Martin is not a reporter as such, more a skeptical blogger – recently brought into the Guardian through their science blogging network (though also Martin is arguably changing his career slightly via that move).

I’d love to see the issues covered from a mainstream perspective – to get more readers but also think about the issue in broader ways too. Took your lead though I finally got around to blogging about it too.

By: Miracle Mineral Solutions « through the looking glass

Miracle Mineral Solutions « through the looking glass — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 16:35:40 +0000

[...] great that Martin’s connection there gets the story into such a high profile site (and, as Paul Bradshaw says, it’d be good if lots of people link to The Guardian’s piece with the words Miracle Mineral [...]